Most of the novels I read these days are crime stories, partly because they are puzzles to be solved, and partly because the flawed detective is sure to prevail (although that is not always the case in some of the darker stories). Occasionally, however, I return to books that are deemed to be “classics” and have withstood the test of time. So it is that…
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